Dan In Space

When You're With Your Drunk Friends

Fri, 01 Jun 2012 10:56:06 -0400

thedcgayz:

Lazy, but angry that I’m eating and she’s not....

Mon, 09 Apr 2012 15:36:31 -0400

Lazy, but angry that I’m eating and she’s not. (Taken with instagram)

The USE Method in Performance Analysis

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 18:53:44 -0500

Brendan Gregg describes the USE Method of performance analysis, extending it slightly beyond system performance.

Dear corrupted filesystem: you thought I didn’t have a backup? You thought wrong! Muahaha!

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:54:01 -0500

Dear corrupted filesystem: you thought I didn’t have a backup? You thought wrong! Muahaha!

Nightlight

Wed, 10 Aug 2011 20:29:48 -0400

Nightlight

Daylight

Wed, 10 Aug 2011 20:28:38 -0400

Daylight

Pink Noise...: Still troubled by my run-in with the homophobes...

Sun, 26 Jun 2011 07:14:34 -0400

Pink Noise...: Still troubled by my run-in with the homophobes...:

prrosado:

It’s been several hours since I had some straight-out-of-central-casting wannabe gay-bashing knuckleheads (draggers?) threaten to kick my ass for being “a f**got”. My guess is it was a reaction to the coverage of the NYS senate’s passage of the same sex marriage bill and the many Pride weekend…

All The Rest Have Peanut Butter

Sat, 23 Apr 2011 00:06:41 -0400

Growing up with Phoof and Sparkle; A chronicle.

prostheticknowledge: BUY EAT (via dingeundsachen / qia)

Wed, 02 Feb 2011 16:11:56 -0500

prostheticknowledge:

BUY EAT (via dingeundsachen / qia)

Apple iPhone/iPad/iPod Remote Tips

Mon, 31 Jan 2011 08:45:38 -0500

The free Remote app and the inexpensive Keynote Remote app are both stable and fast, assuming you’ve got them working on your network. Many folks have had difficulty getting past the authorization screens of both iTunes and Keynote (and any other iPhone-to-app sync programs like Delicious Library), even when meeting the requirement that the host computer and the iPhone are on the same network (NB: I use iPhone, iPad, and iPod interchangeably with respect to the remote-control apps). There are a few rules to follow to ensure they work:

If iTunes, Keynote, or any other program running on the Mac asks you to allow incoming connections, click “Allow.”
Your Mac must be on the same LAN (wired or wireless or both) as the iPhone.
Your router’s firewall must not filter WAN NAT redirection.
If you use a third-party firewall on your Mac like Little Snitch, ensure that the firewall rules permit the Keynote, iTunes, and other remotely-controlled or synced apps are permitted to communicate with the local network (both the default method (IPv4) and the local network/IPv6 (yup, IPv6)).

Xmas tree stand is lit (Taken with instagram at Fish & Sip)

Wed, 24 Nov 2010 16:31:18 -0500

Xmas tree stand is lit (Taken with instagram at Fish & Sip)

Every year on this day I give thanks to my father and...

Thu, 11 Nov 2010 02:15:11 -0500

Every year on this day I give thanks to my father and grandfather who served their country in Vietnam and World War II, respectively. My first cousins and I are the first generation in recent history not to be called to service (or, in some cases, allowed to serve), so we thank our parents and grandparents on our behalf.

With the greatest admiration and respect, the grateful thanks and humble awe of a loving son.

For all veterans, in war and peace, remember them and thank them today.

Slideshow from last summer’s camping trip to the Na Pali...

Sun, 24 Oct 2010 09:32:07 -0400

Slideshow from last summer’s camping trip to the Na Pali coast

Polihale State Park campout at twilight from December 2009.

Sat, 23 Oct 2010 23:28:00 -0400

Polihale State Park campout at twilight from December 2009.

Remembering Benoît

Sat, 16 Oct 2010 13:13:00 -0400

Remembering Benoît:

Dr. Mandelbrot was my neighbor during my childhood and I recall meeting him a few times in front of his house, puffy hair doing its own thing, while he mowed his lawn the old-fashioned way: a push reel lawn mower. The guru of fractals (and many other things) was quite human—just a neighbor—but, like so many folks in my overachieving town, had the aura of a kind of genius even someone unfamiliar with his work could recognize.

We’ll miss you, Benny.

generic1: The World According to San Francisco. I was...

Fri, 15 Oct 2010 22:42:28 -0400

generic1:

The World According to San Francisco.

I was distractedly editing this in a coffeeshop and a guy leaned over and said, “I’m going to Cocaine this week.”

I was so confused for a second.

A bit out-of-date but still relevant.

Fri, 08 Oct 2010 20:55:58 -0400

A bit out-of-date but still relevant.

Family Members on the Witness Stand

Wed, 06 Oct 2010 17:08:00 -0400

As a former (and probably future) juror, I have some brief advice for lawyers: don’t put family members on the witness stand. Their testimony is worth less than zero and the jurors know that; further, they might even hurt your side of the case by exaggeration, obvious bias in favor of the relative, and effusive praise on their side and disdain and contempt on the other.

I’ve been on criminal trials where one response—just one—from the mother or father of an accuser or central witness was enough to convince the jury to acquit. Just one response.

Though jurors are often individually inept, just like everyone else (hello, peers!), as a body they perform a pretty good job at reasoning through testimony and arriving at a logical conclusion. For this and other reasons, if ever a juror raises his or her hand during testimony to have a question and answer read back from the court reporter, then you should see red flags waving and hear alarm bells going off. Something is wrong. Whatever was just said in testimony has made the jury confused (yes, the entire jury—not just the single juror who raised his or her hand). I’ve seen this happen, as well as been the hand-raiser, where the lawyers didn’t take the hint and immediately try to follow up with more questions to settle the problem. They all paid the price of losing their respective cases. All of them.

In closing, dear trial lawyers, keep the family members at home or in the gallery and if you see confusion in the jury, then fix it quickly. Your case depends on it.

iOS 4 on my iPhone 3G

Thu, 24 Jun 2010 10:16:20 -0400

I jailbroke it. Of course. I need my iBlacklist, Apple. Aside from the new directory structure that I’ll be scouring over the next few days, there were a few things I like about the new software:

The UI is snappier. Apps and screens respond faster with rare jitter.
The ‘folder’ concept makes short work of getting to apps. Fewer touches = good.
Geolocation appears to be faster.
Photo storage is much compressed from the 3.x OS series.

A few things (there are more) that I don’t like:

Can’t (by normal means) set the background of the non-lock screen.
I’m not a fan of some of the new widgets, like the geolocation ‘arrow’ (which used to be more like a compass sans the arrow, since my device has no compass and the arrow within would be a tease).
The universal email inbox. I use IMAP with MobileMe but send mail as a different user, which requires me to set up a separate email account in the Mail app that uses a different outgoing mail server. It results in duplication of messages so I only look at the account from which I send the mail. It’s not an iPhone problem, it’s a MobileMe problem, or lack of a “feature,” but annoying.

Carly Fiorina at HP

Sun, 13 Jun 2010 18:14:00 -0400

A senior sales & marketing exec at HP told us, a very large HP customer, during Carly’s tenure that she drove marketing into the ground to the point that if HP had to sell caviar, they’d market it as “cold, dead fish eggs.”